The New Urban Condition

Leandro Medrano is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo (FAUUSP). His main work addresses the relationship between social housing and urban development. Theory of urbanism, urban sociology, urban design, and economic development are some of the research fields involved in his research. Medrano has also been involved in partnerships with research groups from other universities, such as GSD Harvard, KTH, UPM, and TUDelft. In addition to teaching and research activities, he has served in many positions at the university, such as Coordinator of the Architecture and Urbanism Course, Board of Directors of the Science Museum of Unicamp, and Executive Committee of the Museum of Visual Arts at Unicamp. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Ps.Revista FAUUSP and coordinator of the research group Critical Thinking and Contemporary City (PC3). His work has been published in books and academic journals. Luiz Recaman is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo (FAUUSP). His main work addresses the critique of architecture and aesthetics, and modern Brazilian and contemporary architecture. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Revista ARA FAUUSP and coordinator of the research group Critical Thinking and Contemporary City (PC3). Prof. Recaman is co-author of Brazils Modern Architecture (Phaidon, 2004) and Vilanova ArtigasHabitao e Cidade na Modernizao Brasileira (Editora da Unicamp, 2014). Tom Avermaete is Professor for the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on the architecture of the city and the changing roles, approaches, and tools of architects and urban designers from a cross-cultural perspective. Recent book publications include Architecture of the Welfare State (with Swenarton and Van Den Heuvel, 2014), The Balcony (with Koolhaas, 2014), CasablancaChandigarh (with Casciato, 2015), Shopping Towns Europe (with Gosseye, 2017), and Acculturating the Shopping Centre (with Gosseye, 2018). Avermaete curated the exhibitions In the Desert of Modernity (Berlin, Casablanca, 2008, 2009), How architects, experts, politicians, international agencies and citizens negotiate modern planning: Casablanca Chandigarh (Montreal, 2015), and Lived-In: The Modern City as Performative Infrastructure (Antwerp, 2017).

Introduction Leandro Medrano, Luiz Recaman, and Tom Avermaete Part I: Theoretical Tenets 1. Remains of Architectural Reason Luiz Recaman 2. On Architecture and Urban Space After the Ideological Crisis of Neoliberalism Leandro Medrano 3. Constructing the Commons: Towards another Architectural Theory of the City? Tom Avermaete 4. Erving Goffmans Sociology of Physical Space for Architects and Urban Designers Fraya Frehse 5. Broken Windows, Revisited Reinhold Martin 6. Architecture and Critical Project Sven-Olov Wallenstein 7. Ruins of the Future Otlia Arantes Part II: Rethinking Spatial Rhythms 8. Henri Lefebvre and the Morphology of a Spatial Dialectic Csar Simoni Santos 9. Anthropophagic Phenomenology: Encounters at Lina Bos SESC Pompeia Cultural and Leisure Center Natalia Escobar Castrilln 10. Incremental Housing: A Short History of an Idea Nelson Mota 11. The Bubble, the Arrow, and the Area: Urban Design and Diagrammatic Concepts of Human Action Daniel Koch Part III: Contemporary Spatial Forms of the City 12. The Subaltern City: Revisiting the Materialist Critique of Urban Form Marta Caldeira 13. The Chronicles of Neo Janina Gosseye 14. The Legitimized Reproduction of a Corporate Typology: Dispositions of Architectural Form in the LEED Rating System Raphael Grazziano 15. What Ever Happened to Social Housing? Sergio Martn Blas 16. Five Fronts for One Single Position: Critical Strategies for Contemporary Pedagogy in the Subject of Architectural Design Carmen Espegel Alonso and Daniel Movilla Vega Index